
Care for older prisoners is a postcode lottery
Joint HMI Prisons/CQC review of social care finds inconsistent response and no strategic planning.
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Joint HMI Prisons/CQC review of social care finds inconsistent response and no strategic planning.

“This is extreme custody and its management raises complex operational challenges and profound ethical issues.”

Annual inspectors’ report reveals children in custody are locked up for too long, often feel unsafe and are frequently victimised.

Prison Inspectors provide graphic evidence of the terrible physical state of many local prisons in England.

A damning annual report from Prison Chief Inspector Peter Clarke highlights lack of safety, particularly in YOIs & that prisoners spent too much time locked up.

Joint probation/prisons inspection report finds that new post-Transforming Rehabilitation probation system is having no impact in helping prisoners on release.

Chief Prison Inspector Peter Clarke draws attention to the unjust incarceration of people serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection

One of the side-effects of imprisoning fewer children is that more are kept further from home making it difficult for families to visit regularly.

Prison & Probation Inspectors find that Through-the-gate support for short term prisoners is poor one year into new initiative.

New prison inspectorate report says some prisons are feeding inmates for £1.87 per day – one fifth of the budget for hospital patients.

Prison Inspectors investigate prisoners’ contact with families and friends and find that many prisons place additional barriers to maintaining relationships.